Digital payments

2024 Newsletter

Reflecting on digital payments for development, inclusion and transformation in 2024

UNDP Welcomes Better Than Cash Alliance and Introduces New Alliance Managing Director

Strategic Partnership to Enhance Financial Inclusion and Digital Payment Solutions

Become a Certified Digital Finance Practitioner!

An exciting update to the UN Principles for Responsible Digital Payments online learning course!

Recourse > How to make it clear, quick and, responsive!

How are financial service providers, governments, and regulators improving recourse systems to increase trust and treat users fairly?

2023 Highlights Newsletter

This year, members and partners, in collaboration with our Secretariat team, moved the responsible payment digitization agenda forward across sectors, from agriculture and trade to health and decent work.

From 1% to 30% > The Philippines' digital payment transformation

The success story of the Philippines and the key decisions made by the government and private sector in accelerating the adoption of responsible digital payments.

New evidence > Responsible digital financial inclusion is driving SDG progress

Digital financial inclusion offers real hope to help us get back to achieving the SDGs by 2030

Our 2022 in 3 words...

Improving access to healthcare and decent work, reaching farmers, including merchants, equal opportunities for women and much more, through responsibly digitizing payments.

Responsible Digital Payments for Women Merchants

Alliance’s work in action

Register! E-learning opportunity > UN Principles for Responsible Digital Payments

Learn about the 9 principles and receive a digital certificate!

Bangladesh launches vision to scale responsible digital payments by 2025

Lessons on accelerating responsible digital payments globally

A compilation of what we have learnt from supporting country diagnostic reports and national strategies, merchant payments (P2B) and Person to Government (P2G) payments.

2021 highlights: Launching and scaling responsible digital payments

Here, we share highlights of our collaboration with members despite the continuing serious challenges of COVID-19.

Côte d'Ivoire > Women merchants' contribution to economic recovery to be boosted by new policy guidance note

How will digitization of merchant payments improve women’s financial inclusion and economic resilience?

Jordan's garment sector announces commitments to digitize wages responsibly

How can digital wages support decent work and inclusive economic recovery?

Launching the UN Principles for Responsible Digital Payments

Building trust, mitigating risks and driving inclusive economies

$18 billion merchant retail digitization opportunity in India's North East region

New Report “Catalyzing Responsible Digital Payments in India’s North East Region” by UN based Better Than Cash Alliance

What are the challenges and opportunities of responsibly digitizing humanitarian payments?

Our latest report guides humanitarians to assess if and how digital payments can be effective

West Africa launches new payments digitization agenda

New report: Worker payments digitization for economic recovery and decent work.

Accelerating responsible digital payments for COVID-19 relief

The devastating social and economic impacts of COVID-19 have heightened the need for proven solutions to keep the Sustainable Development Goals within reach